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Rebekah West
@rebequewest.bsky.social
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Multi-disciplinary artist, designer, writer. Born 🇺🇸 Lived 🇫🇷 🇦🇺 * Make something & pour your 💔 in. Potty mouth.

I don’t repost his face, voice or words unless useful.

* Project 2025 vid & doc pin
* You can file complaint w state AG
* Civil rights: ALL
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Rebekah West @rebequewest.bsky.social · Jan 21
Also, here it is:

static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...
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sammyroth.bsky.social
In 2020, Microsoft pledged to cut water use. The company is now privately projecting its data center water consumption will more than double this decade. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/t...
Microsoft Pledged to Save Water. In the A.I. Era, It Expects Water Use to Soar.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
Narrator: "And they're BOTH in the Epstein Files"
February 5, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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sammyroth.bsky.social
Some Californians are quietly installing plug-in "balcony" solar panels without permission. A new being debated in the Legislature would make it legal: www.latimes.com/environment/... via @toddwoody.bsky.social
To lower electric bills, consumers quietly install DIY solar
Plug-in solar has remained in the shadows because of a lack of safety standards and often costly requirements imposed by utilities, but that’s changing.
www.latimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
On the very same day that Bezos published a climate-downplaying op-ed by newly Epstein-linked climate denier Bjorn Lomborg:
February 5, 2026 at 2:05 AM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
Sorry for leaving you out Mark Zuckerberg. It was an honest oversight.
michaelemann.bsky.social Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 11h
Musk, Gates, Bezos, Murdoch and Thiel are the Bond Villains we were warned about three decades ago
February 5, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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shannonosaka.bsky.social
I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated.

www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...
Breaking: Washington Post gutting its climate team
Clean energy dies in darkness. Courtesy of Jeff Bezos.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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volts.wtf
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junlper.beer onion person @junlper.beer · 8h
it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
February 5, 2026 at 3:12 AM
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michaelemann.bsky.social
an apt neologism
solidagobro.bsky.social Owen D. V. Sholes, Ph.D. @solidagobro.bsky.social · 7h
Get rid of pedobroligarchs
February 5, 2026 at 3:33 AM
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elinlb.bsky.social
You are far away from a democracy when government affiliates are open about how they work to hinder free elections.
donmoyn.bsky.social Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13h
From 1982-2018, the Republican National Committee was barred from "ballot security measures" because of their record of using state actors to intimidate minority voters.
(H/t @rickhasen.bsky.social)
www.npr.org/2018/01/09/5...
February 5, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them.
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear.
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn
States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
I know it’s intentional but we should stop calling everything AI, lumping useful machine learning techniques for science with large language models that tech companies are trying to cram into everything.
en.afp.com AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 5h
AI to track icebergs adrift at sea.

British scientists say a world-first AI tool to catalogue and track icebergs as they break apart into smaller chunks could fill a "major blind spot" in predicting climate change
u.afp.com/S2sA
February 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
So they didn’t just bomb them?
February 5, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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myzerocarbon.org
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Progress Despite Fragmentation: The Energy Transition to 2030

Find out more: about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

#ClimateAction
Progress Despite Fragmentation: The Energy Transition to 2030 | BloombergNEF
The second half of the decade will not be straightforward, but count on more progress being made.
about.bnef.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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myzerocarbon.org
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Germany's solar capacity to quadruple by 2045, grid operators expect | Renewable Energy News | Renewables Now

Find out more: renewablesnow.com/news/germ...

#ClimateAction
renewablesnow.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:30 AM
rebequewest.bsky.social
Good. She’s nuts
February 5, 2026 at 9:39 AM
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jonseidel.bsky.social
Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths

'I am their voice'

NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Marimar Martinez, shot by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Good, Pretti deaths: 'I am their voice'
In a wide-ranging interview with the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ, Martinez discusses her shooting, the federal government’s failed attempt to prosecute her and the role she now sees for herself in a fi...
chicago.suntimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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charliesaito22.bsky.social
February 5, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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jjindc.bsky.social
🧐 Who the F are you?

Find out on Thursday's ICECAST
February 5, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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golub.bsky.social
1 million and 243,840
February 5, 2026 at 5:30 AM
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reshetz.bsky.social
Only $1500 left to collect, thank you all so much🥹 you guys made it possible
reshetz.bsky.social Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 1d
Guys I have an offer: you donate to this fundraiser (we have 16k left to collect) and we save Ukrainian lives in return how does that sound chat

dzygaspaw.com/monokate-and...
February 5, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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english.nv.ua
💔 An elderly Ukrainian couple walked to safety with their dog after losing their homes in Donetsk and later in Bilytske. They spent 1.5 months hiding in a basement during shelling and are now left with almost nothing. A volunteer is trying to find them free housing
February 5, 2026 at 8:02 AM
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kyivindependent.com
⚡️ 'Ukraine cannot be left alone' — Polish prime minister arrives in Kyiv as Russian strikes deepen energy crisis.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is expected to hold talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky.
'Ukraine cannot be left alone' — Polish prime minister arrives in Kyiv amid Russian energy attacks
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is expected to later hold talks with President Volodymyr Zelensky.
kyivindependent.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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english.nv.ua
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia has made several attempts to assassinate him
'I’m used to it': Zelenskyy says Russia tried to assassinate him
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia has made several attempts to assassinate him, in an interview with France 2, as reported by Le Monde on Feb. 5.
english.nv.ua
February 5, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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darthputinkgb.bsky.social
OTD in 2022 your Prez predicted the exact invasion date.
February 5, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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laurajedeed.bsky.social
"Sorry if one of your billionaire donors is embarrassed because he went to Rape Island. Some will be embarrassed. Some need to go to prison."

"We'll know this bill worked when rich men are being perp-walked to jail."

Thomas Massie stays winning
February 4, 2026 at 9:12 PM